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Not Forgotten: Teenage Fanclub – Songs from Northern Britain

Having carved a career critically acclaimed career during the peak years of BritPop, by all rights Scottish power-pop guitar-slingers Teenage Fanclub should have been huge and the fact that they…

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Classic Compilation: A Testimonial Dinner – The Songs of XTC

By the mid 90s XTC must have felt distinctly unloved. Neither critical darlings, nor a massive commercial success, they’d had a career-stalling set-to with their record label and had no…

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Incoming: The Duke of Burgundy

Day after day the couple act out a simple ritual that ends in Evelyn’s punishment, but Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship. Evelyn’s obsession quickly becomes an addiction that…

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DVD Review: Rabid

David Cronenberg built a reputation as a filmmaker through the establishment of what was to become classed as the “body horror” genre. The Canadian director’s fascination with the effect of…

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Live review: King Charles, Hebden Bridge Trades Club. 13/2/15

It might have been Friday the 13th, but for King Charles’ hardcore band of fans it wasn’t unlucky as he turned in a powerful greatest hits set with some new…

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Album Review: The Dodos : Individ

The Dodos have been doing their thing now for a few years. It seems like we’ve gone from their 2008 album Visiter to their new album Individ in the blink of an eye. I know…

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Not Forgotten – ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

The couple of previous albums had been an effective run-up, but Tres Hombres is where the career of ZZ Top really took flight. This is the album that saw them…

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See: Alex G – ‘Proof’ Music Video

Continuing with the idea of releasing a music video for every track from the debut album, Alex G has just released the video for ‘Proof’. What makes this one stand…

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Film Review: Love Is Strange

Given the amount of money spent on advertising for Valentine’s Day, you could be forgiven in thinking that love consists of handcuffs, whips, expensive dining or tacky cards. Cinema itself…

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A Beginners Guide to Bob Dylan

Over the last fifteen months we here at Backseat Mafia have been publishing a series of Buyers Guides on a number of musical acts. Sometimes these guides have covered a…

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Not Forgotten: Teenage Fanclub – Songs from Northern Britain

Classic Compilation: A Testimonial Dinner – The Songs of XTC

Incoming: The Duke of Burgundy

DVD Review: Rabid

Live review: King Charles, Hebden Bridge Trades Club. 13/2/15

Album Review: The Dodos : Individ

Not Forgotten – ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

See: Alex G – ‘Proof’ Music Video

Film Review: Love Is Strange

A Beginners Guide to Bob Dylan